Bathrooms are not generally cohesive with rest of homes.

And the universe is composed of more than beige and gray choices. What do you like because unless you are flipping it is pointless to outguess the market. Put in what you love and want to live with and enjoy it.

FWIW, my bathrooms are tiled with teal blue tiles with accents of copper - I have no idea whether it is on trend or will be on trend but I loved the colors of the design :-)

White is good with any color, even beige and brown. Espresso with white looks striking. Creams and beiges with white and taupe work too. It takes a while to find a palette of complimentary neutral colors, but it can be done.

I just bought this tile from home depot. It has creams and taupes and grays and whites. Works with white subway and taupe glass and has some golds in it.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/MSI-Angora-Basketweave-12-in-x-12-in-x-10-mm-Polished-Marble-Mesh-Mounted-Mosaic-Tile-ANGORA-BWP10MM/302789911

There are a lot of “warm gray” options that look brown. The trick is to not go too gold or too red. I would go as cool as you can tolerate (because cool colors are easier on the eyes), but I agree that pure gray in large amounts is dreary. Go with a color (not gray or brown) painted on the walls. Go as muted as you can because any tone will look really saturated. Or you can do white on the walls and do colored accessories. Gold accessories with a clean background palette could be awesome if you want to amp up the gold. Look at google pics.

I hate gray. Always have. It's OK for grout or driveways but that is the extent of my tolerance for it.

If you gravitate toward warm earthy colors, then use them. That alone will give you cohesiveness..or lets say, quite a lot of it.

I don't know why you get impression every bath looks the same..depends where you're looking I guess? I pin from wherever, so all my kitchens and baths on my Pinterest board are -sometimes wildly-different. Both in style and in colors used. People live in different houses, have different tastes, and do different things. Which is very cool because it's precisely what makes it all interesting.

If you're worried about "outdated" don't be since gray is moving out anyway. In terms of "trends". Now they're into whites. And light greiges as to bridge things a bit. And into deeper darker colors. And..I can go on and on.

So I don't know when "one day" comes..if it's in 30 years maybe we'll be back to gray again:)

(I do have some very warm grays because I love them, trend or not. I have tans and taupes as well. And off whites. And just colors, a.k a not neutrals. As long as it's same mood, similar color intensity and temperature, you can get away with a lot, in terms of paint, and colors, and patterns, and whatnot. )

It's your bathroom,

Make it cream if you want to,

Gold if you want to,

Green if you want to

You'd paint it too

If it happened to you,

Tra-la-la-la!

Do what you want! You don’t have to like gray. You have tons of options!

I like blue..

I also don't love gray and it isn't the best color for my Spanish style house. Here are some warmer toned bathrooms I had saved in my ideabooks.

Master Bathroom · More Info

Traditional Bathroom · More Info

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Palo Alto Residence · More Info

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Bayshore drive · More Info

Your house, your choices. If you are planning to live in the house for a good while, what is "in" now may be "out" if you sell at a later time. So do what you like and enjoy it. Don't worry about trends.

Thank you everyone for your supportive comments. I’ve read some comments on other threads that were quite critical of people’s choices and I started to second guess myself. Thank you Chispa and Carolyn K for sharing the lovely photos. Definitely feeling more confident in both my color preferences and style choices.

Years ago I bought a house that I thought had white walls. I kept thinking it was cloudy every day and quickly realized it was because the walls were actually light grey. So no, I don't ever want grey walls or decorating...